HIDDEN DEPTHS
Cristina Mittermeier is a Mexican photographer, marine biologist and conservationist. She studied Biochemical Engineering in Marine Sciences at Mexico’s ITESM University. Christina’s work appears in global publications such as National Geographic and TIME.
In 2015, Cristina co-founded SeaLegacy (sealegacy.org) with her partner, Canadian photographer Paul Nicklen, a non-profit organisation that uses photography and visual storytelling to protect the world’s oceans. She is also the founder of the International League of Conservation Photographers (conservationphotographers.org).
As well as wildlife and oceans, Cristina’s work also focuses on indigenous peoples, including the Kayapo in Brazil’s Amazon and coastal communities. Her books include Amaze and Sublime Nature.
For more of Cristina’s work, head to: cristinamittermeier.com sealegacy.org
W here did your love for oceans and nature come from?
The original curiosity came from reading books. My family received National Geographic like everybody else. That was a great source of wonder. But there was a series of adventure books my father gifted to my older brother, written by the Italian novelist Emilio Salgari, who lived in the 1800s, with incredible stories about pirates in Malaysia or cowboys. The descriptions were so vivid and exciting. That’s where the bug to wander came from.
In those books, there
